Errors: Consequences of Big Mistakes in the Natural and Social Sciences (Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Spring 2005)

by Lorraine Daston, Lawrence Badash, Peter Galison

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Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951, East Lansing, Michigan)[1] is an American historian of science. Executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, she is considered an authority on Early Modern European scientific and intellectual history. In 1993, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.